陶尔曼在科学上的貢献,包括两大巨著和在科学杂志上发表的近一百篇論文。1917年至1918年間,当他在西北大学任教时,发表了第一批有关识知作用的文章,预示了他后來的系統公式中强烈的识知性质。然而他的早期文章,大部分脫胎于經典式的內省和联想主义问題的研究——无象思維,倒摄抑制,愉快与不愉快单字的联想作用的时間性。据他后來自述,他认为“行为主义的观点,还沒有真正 Taurman’s contribution to science includes two monographs and nearly a hundred papers published in scientific journals. Between 1917 and 1918, when he was teaching at Northwestern University, he published the first articles on awareness that heralded the strong cognitive nature of his later system of formulas. However, most of his early essays were born out of the study of classic introspective and associative problems - the temporal nature of the associative effects of thinking, censorship, pleasure and unhappiness. According to his later statement, he considered "the behavioralist view that has not yet been real